Word: levies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Often the "shark's" name is Cohen, or Levi, or Weinstein. In Princeton '23 his name was Saul Makrauer. In Yale '07 (Sheffield Scientific School) his name was Samuel B. Rosenbaum. It is the post-graduate careers of these men that is interesting, for they are usually born teachers of an efficient, 20th Century kind. This month, the opening of a new preparatory school, The Milford School of New York, was an illustration of the "shark" type's capabilities. Thereby also hangs a story about stepladders to the golden apples of learning...
Lord Curzon married first Mary Leiter, daughter of Levi Z. Leiter of Washington, D.C.; a widower, he married Grace Hinds, daughter of the late ]. Monroe Hinds, onetime U. S. Minister to Brazil, widow of Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires. The marquisate and earldom now become extinct. Richard Nathaniel Curzon, nephew, succeeds by "special remainder" to the Viscounty of Scarsdale. Lady Mary Irene Curzon, eldest daughter, and granddaughter of Levi Z. Leiter, becomes, also by special remainder, Baroness of Ravensdale in her own right...
...greatest evil of our civilization," continued Rabbi Levi, "is our two kinds of law,--church and state. We ought only to have one. Years ago, when the church and the state were one, there was but a single law. This law, whether you call it ecclesiastical or secular does not matter, covered all cases and its great advantage lay in that its provisions were enforced by both the temporal and spiritual power. Now that these are separate, the secular law no longer receives the sanction of the spiritual; men say that, since the law is man-made...
...Rabbi Levi, explaining that there could be no "static religion", denied the existence of an orthodox religion...
...There is no church," said Rabbi Levi, "that has today the same laws it had in the Middle Ages...